Calendar

Sep
20
Thu
“Why commit suicide? After all, ‘Everything he hated was here!’: Philip Roth and Kitaj on Death, Sex, and Love” Roger Porter lectures on Philip Roth and R.B. Kitaj @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm

Philip Roth and R.B. Kitaj became good friends in London during the ’80s, and the painter influenced Roth in many ways, especially for the title character of Roth’s greatest novel, Sabbath’s Theater. Roger Porter, Professor of English and Humanities, Emeritus, Reed College focuses his lecture on Roth and Kitaj’s shared attitudes, or perhaps those of their characters and their painterly subjects, regarding desire, ecstasy, and the inevitable demise. The title of the lecture is a paraphrase of a quote by the protagonist Sabbath on the last page of Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater.

Oct
18
Thu
PDX Business Breakfast Series: Blockchain and Bitcoin… the Future? @ Portland State University
Oct 18 @ 7:15 am – 9:15 am

PDX Business Breakfast Series: Blockchain and Bitcoin… the Future?

Join us for a discussion of blockchain, its business applications, and whether it is the next “big thing.”

PSU – Native American Student & Community Center

7:15 – 8:00 am: Networking + Breakfast
8:00 – 9:15 am: Program

FEATURING:

Dr. Joe Kiniry of Galois and Free & Fair

Rob La Forte of Columbia Fresh Transportation Services

Jeff Mazer of moovel North America

Moderator: Joey Fishman of Ritholtz Wealth Management

For more details and to register: oregonjcc.org/pdxbiz